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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• This email message is a "dying widow" scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • @yahoo.co.uk

Fraud email example:

From: susan smith <mothersusanc2@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <mrssusansmith107@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:05:18 -0600
Subject: CAN I TRUST U?



MRS SUSAN SMITH Private Email: susansmithcontact2009 @yahoo.co.uk Occupation: Retired mid wife Nurse. London, United Kingdom. RE: HUMANILTY CONSULT/ BUSINESS INVESTMENTHello Dear,I want to drop you a quick note because I did not hear back from you concerning the information I sent you the other day. In case you did not receive the letter introducing my intent. I am Mrs. Susan Smith from London. A widow to late Mr. Richard Smith who was the former Branch chairman of the petroleum oil company in Kuwait for nine years, who perished in fatal accident on 18TH JULY 2004 on his way to a meeting with his secretary (MR. MARTIN GREENBERG) OF FLORIDA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, I got your mail through my private search and out of desperation decided to reach you through this medium. Four days before he died on the 17th day of August 2005 after spending closely two months in the Hospital, he called me on his seek bed and narrated to me that he deposited the total sum of (£15M) (FIFTEEN Million Pounds) in an Escrow account in a Bank named Citi Bank London. He also told me where he kept the files, which contains all the vital information he used in depositing the money in the Escrow account of The Citi Bank London. I want you to receive this fund on my behalf and invest on a profitable business venture on an agreed terms. If you are interested please get in touch with me as soon as possible for more details. Then i will send you the vita prove that the fund was deposited here in the Citi Bank london by my late husband Mr. Clement Smith which is the Deposit Slip of the fund issued to him in the day of deposit.I have to notified your attention that I will offer you the 35% percent of the total amount, while the remaining balance will go to my only son who is now in our pastor's house for safety of his their life, Due to his late father's elder brothers made away with his inheritance properties that belongs to him as the inheritor. Now as you can see in my next mail I will send you the full details of this project and my vital pictures here in the hosptial, so you can see things by your self. Thanks and God Bless. Mrs. Susan Smith.
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